54 Get Employees to Buy Into Your Ideas—and Theirs
The more input an employee can provide about the job he or she is expected to perform, the more likely the employee is to buy into your ideas for how to do it well. When they know you actually care about their performance and are willing to listen to their ideas for improvement, they’ll be motivated to accept your suggestions as well.
The term “buy-in” is one that every manager uses at one time or another, but often not in the same way. If you think that getting your employees to buy into a program means somehow compelling them to accept it, you’re likely to run into problems. Employees truly buy in when they decide to invest their individual abilities and energies, as if they were business owners ...
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